With his hands still in his coat pockets he stalked by me into the hall, turned sharply as if he were on a wire, and disappeared into the living-room. It wasn’t a bit funny. Aware of the loud beating of my own heart I pulled the door to against the increasing rain.

After the house, we were to see the grounds and the swimming-pool, and the hydroplane and the mid-summer flowers—but outside Gatsby’s window it began to rain again, so we stood in a row looking at the corrugated surface of the Sound.

About “The Great Gatsby (Chapter V)”

In this critical chapter, Daisy and Gatsby finally meet one another through Nick.

Thematically, this chapter considers Gatsby’s fantastical idea of Daisy as it relates to the reality of who Daisy is.

It’s also important to keep in mind that Nick isn’t a completely reliable narrator in this chapter— he brings his own judgements and biases to the narrative, and there’s a distinction between Nick relating events and Nick speculating about how other characters are feeling.